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"Oh! my God! my God! will none even try to save him?" cried Henrietta, wringing her hands in extreme anguish. Suddenly: "Pray for me, aunty!" exclaimed Jacquelina, and she darted like a bird toward the house, into the passage, and seemed lost in the smoke and flame!
What was it? Oh, run for the doctor, somebody. What are you all standing like you were thunderstruck for? Dr. Grimshaw, start a boy on horseback immediately for a physician. Tell him to tell the doctor to bring a stomach pump with him. You had better go yourself. Oh, hasten; not a single moment is to be lost. Jacquelina, my dear, do you begin to feel sick?
"It was to force from her hand a paper which she has swallowed," said Dr. Grimshaw, with stern coldness regarding the group. "Swallowed! swallowed!" shrieked Mrs. Waugh, rushing toward Jacquelina, and seizing one of her arms, and gazing in her face, thinking only of poisons and of Jacko's frequent threats of suicide. "Swallowed! swallowed! Where did she get it? Who procured it for her?
Jacquelina would have made her vows perpetual by taking the black veil, but her Superior constantly dissuaded her from it. She was young, and life, with its possibilities, was all before her; she must wait many years before she took the step that could not be retracted without perjury. And so each year she renewed her vow a twelvemonth.
"Dear Thurston, I have something to propose to you, that I fear you will not like very well; but if you do not, speak freely; for I am not bound." "I I do not understand you, love! Pray explain at once," said he, quick to take alarm where she was concerned. "You know poor little Jacquelina has fallen into very bad health and spirits?
At length she stooped and whispered to Jacquelina: "Child, be cautious; Dr. Grimshaw is on the ground I have seen his face rise up to that lower pane of glass at the corner of that window, several times. He must be crouched down on the outside."
And so having overwhelmed the timid, nervous woman with undeserved reproaches and threats, he arose and left the room. And can any one be surprised that her illness was increased, and her fever arose and her senses wandered all night? When her mother was ill, Jacquelina could not sleep.
And the bridal party were the cynosure of many hundred eyes as they passed up the aisle and stood before the altar. The ceremony proceeded. But not one response, either verbally or mentally, did Jacquelina make. The priest passed over her silence, naturally ascribing it to bashfulness, and honestly taking her consent for granted.
Then I shall have to beg of Mrs. Waugh the use of the carriage to go home." "Well, then, I will ride with you, Marian, and return in the carriage." All the company, with the exception of Mrs. Waugh, Marian and Jacquelina, had left the breakfast-room. Mrs.
Grimshaw almost into frenzy, did not help Thurston to forget the good and beautiful Marian. Indeed, by contrast, it seemed to make her more excellent and lovely. And thus, while Jacquelina fancied she had a new admirer, Dr.
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